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10 Free Change Management Templates for Excel and Word

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It’s a cliche to say nothing is constant but change, but cliches grow from truths. Project managers understand this and work hard to create change management plans that ensure their projects run smoothly. If you’re looking for other free project management templates, you’re in the right place.

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Unraveling the Causes of Troubled Projects: A Closer Look

Project Risk Coach

Inadequate Planning and Estimation Insufficient planning and inaccurate estimation of resources, time, and budget are common culprits in troubled projects. When project managers fail to conduct a thorough analysis of project requirements and dependencies, they are likely to underestimate the effort required.

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Business Analyst vs Project Manager: The Differences To Know

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In the PMI Business Analysis Practice Standard, business analysis is defined like this: The set of activities performed to identify the business need and recommend relevant solutions; and to elicit, document, and manage requirements. In contrast, there is a variety of professional bodies for project managers.

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100+ Project Management Terms: PM Terminology Explained

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B – Project Management Terms Backlog Backlog is a term from the Agile methodology Scrum, but is also used across industries to track every single thing that is needed to complete a product in development. Baseline A baseline is an estimate of the project’s scope, schedule and costs that is created during the planning stage.

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AI in Project Management: An Interview with Lloyd Skinner

Rebel’s Guide to PM

And that means convincing management that it’s worth starting to use the tools. You hit the conversations about data straight away,” says Lloyd, who has a background in large scale change management and project delivery. “ ‘We don’t have the data, the data we do have is in lots of different shapes and sizes’.

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The 10 Project Management Knowledge Areas (PMBOK)

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With the tasks now sequenced, the resources required for each must be estimated and assigned. Earned value management is performed regularly to make sure that the actual plan is proceeding as it had been planned. Project Cost Management. Then comes the need to control those cost through an earned value analysis.

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How to Manage Project Scope Without Scope Creep (with examples)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Scope management is the way to deal with that, so let’s talk about how we can use change control protocol to help with it all. What is change control and why is it important? Change control or change management is the process of managing unplanned but desired influences on the project.